- #1 Life is Feudal: Your Own
97% matchMixed66% of 12,061 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 58.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.6% ★, Open World 11.1%, Sandbox 10.3%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features a similar focus on realistic medieval survival, complex crafting, and terraforming mechanics.
- #2 Myth of Empires
96% matchMixed67% of 17,381 reviews2024
Dev: Angela GamePub: Imperium Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 15.3 hrsMean: 229.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Myth of Empires is a multiplayer war sandbox game featuring a high degree of freedom and multiple civilizations. Players must survive, craft, create, and lead troops in their quest to conquer PVE or PVP territory and build their own empire. Xizhou Civilization Pack is now officially released!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, Sandbox 11.5%, MMORPG 11% ★, Building 10.3%, Open World 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a massive sandbox world with deep building, crafting, and player-driven political systems.
- #3 Gloria Victis: Medieval MMORPG
96% matchMixed69% of 10,552 reviews2023
Dev: gamigo US
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 25.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Gloria Victis is an MMORPG with an emphasis on realism, set in a low-fantasy medieval open world. Enjoy MMO with skill-based non-target combat, open PVP with territory control, deep crafting system and player-driven economy – all that served with beautiful graphics and an immersive atmosphere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, MMORPG 16.2% ★, Open World 14.3%, Crafting 8.6%, RPG 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on a gritty, realistic medieval setting with a strong emphasis on player-driven conflict and crafting.
- #4 Valheim
94% matchVery Positive94% of 534,015 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.8 hrsMean: 76.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.6% ★, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 9.4%, Survival 9.4%, Building 9%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the rewarding cycle of exploration, resource gathering, and building in a challenging, atmospheric environment.
- #5 Wild Terra 2: New Lands
95% matchMixed52% of 3,445 reviews2022
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 31.6 hrs≥1hr: 42%
MMORPG full of details that create a unique immersion and the spirit of adventure! Play your role in the life-filled medieval world controlled by players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.2% ★, Sandbox 11.2%, Crafting 8.5%, MMORPG 7.7% ★, Building 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down sandbox that mirrors the progression style and crafting depth of classic survival MMOs.
- #6 Eco
94% matchVery Positive81% of 13,905 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 89.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.4% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Building 11.4%, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: Provides an incredibly deep simulation of a player-driven economy and ecosystem that requires long-term planning.
- #7 Citadel: Forged with Fire
93% matchMixed68% of 5,884 reviews2019
Dev: Blue Isle StudiosPub: Blue Isle Publishing
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
This massive online sandbox RPG features elements of magic, spellcasting, building, exploring and crafting. As a newly minted apprentice of the magic arts, you will set off to the dangerous world of Ignus. Tame mighty beasts, forge alliances, explore uncharted territories or fight for dominance!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.3% ★, Open World 13.9%, Sandbox 9.1%, Survival 8.4%, Crafting 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on magical crafting, building, and exploration in a large-scale open world.
- #8 Medieval Dynasty
91% matchVery Positive90% of 50,786 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.8 hrsMean: 36.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Why similar: Crafting 18.3%, Building 16.4%, Sandbox 11.9%, Open World 11.8%, Survival 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Blends survival and building with deep management mechanics as you grow a settlement from scratch.
- #9 Boundless
92% matchMixed70% of 2,767 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 32.9 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.5% ★, Sandbox 12.6%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 10.4%, Building 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based sandbox that emphasizes player-driven trade, crafting, and building across multiple worlds.
- #10 Dark and Light
91% matchMixed52% of 11,819 reviews2017
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 49.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Dark and Light is a vast sandbox survival RPG set in a world dominated by powerful elemental forces. Find your way in a meticulously crafted world, featuring breathtaking landscapes, a wide variety of mythical creatures, and limitless possibility to craft, build, and unlock dozens of powerful weapons, spells, and skills.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.1% ★, Open World 16%, Sandbox 14.2%, Survival 11.9%, MMORPG 8.6% ★
Why You'll Like It: A fantasy-themed survival sandbox that emphasizes magic, taming, and large-scale world interaction.
- #11 ARK: Survival Ascended
89% matchMixed60% of 105,775 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 27.6 hrsMean: 196.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
Why similar: Open World 17.4%, Survival 15.1%, Crafting 13.5%, Sandbox 11.9%, Building 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: Features an expansive world with complex taming, building, and survival systems that reward long-term investment.
- #12 Rising World
90% matchVery Positive86% of 5,890 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.1% ★, Sandbox 12%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 10.5%, Survival 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Features a highly interactive, destructible environment with a focus on creative building and exploration.
- #13 Necesse
88% matchVery Positive93% of 27,199 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.8% ★, Sandbox 10%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 8.5%, Survival 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: Combines top-down survival and crafting with settlement management and dungeon exploration.
- #14 7 Days to Die
86% matchVery Positive87% of 399,251 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 108.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.1% ★, Survival 14.5%, Open World 12.8%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 10%
Why You'll Like It: Offers unparalleled voxel-based terraforming and base-building depth within a harsh survival setting.
- #15 Life is Feudal: MMO
89% matchMixed40% of 7,344 reviews2018
Dev: LTG
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 45.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Experience the hardcore reality of the Middle Ages. Master survival, engage in deep-rooted RPG elements, navigate a bustling economy, build communities, and employ diplomatic strategy to thrive in Abella's vast expanse.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, MMORPG 11.1% ★, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 8.7%, Survival 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: An expanded multiplayer version of the medieval survival formula with a focus on large-scale community building.
- #16 Project Zomboid
86% matchVery Positive94% of 450,585 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 83.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.6% ★, Survival 15.2%, Open World 13.2%, Sandbox 10.9%, Crafting 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Provides extreme mechanical depth and a focus on long-term survival that appeals to fans of complex systems.
- #17 Reign Of Kings
87% matchMixed57% of 14,891 reviews2015
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 47.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.9% ★, Open World 11.4%, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 9.7%, Building 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on medieval survival and building with a unique system for player-driven governance and combat.
- #18 Creativerse
85% matchMostly Positive78% of 30,868 reviews2017
Dev: Playful Corp.
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.4% ★, Sandbox 11.4%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 9.8%, Building 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A creative-focused sandbox that allows for intricate building and exploration in a vibrant voxel world.
- #19 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,194 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.4% ★, Open World 11%, Sandbox 10.9%, Building 10.6%, Crafting 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Offers deep crafting and base-building mechanics set in a vast, procedurally generated space environment.
- #20 Xsyon - Prelude
84% matchMostly Positive73% of 369 reviews2014
Dev: Notorious Games
Windows
Xsyon is a player driven apocalyptic fantasy sandbox MMORPG, set in a living and evolving environment. Players create the world they want to live in as they form tribes, construct towns, shape landscapes, create quests, hunt, farm, gather, build societies and develop a New World.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.2% ★, Sandbox 10.8%, Open World 10%, Crafting 9.6%, MMORPG 9.4% ★
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic sandbox that focuses on community building and player-driven development.
- #21 Solace Crafting
83% matchMostly Positive72% of 891 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.8% ★, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 9.5%, Sandbox 9.2%, Survival 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on crafting and exploration in a vast, procedurally generated fantasy world.
- #22 Force of Nature
81% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,202 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.9% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Sandbox 9.8%, Survival 9.5%, Open World 9%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and crafting with exploration in a procedurally generated, top-down world.
- #23 Valnir Rok Survival RPG
82% matchMixed44% of 980 reviews2017
Dev: encurio
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Valnir Rok is a multiplayer survival roleplaying game in a Viking setting with quests by bestselling author Giles Kristian. Explore a huge open world, craft items, cook meals, build houses and found clan cities. Raid other clans or place bounties. Pray to the gods and survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.7% ★, Open World 18.5%, Survival 13.8%, RPG 8.4%, MMORPG 7.8% ★
Why You'll Like It: A Viking-themed survival game that emphasizes crafting, exploration, and RPG progression.
- #24 Realms of Magic
80% matchVery Positive81% of 990 reviews2022
Dev: Polished Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey through the Old Kingdom in Realms of Magic - a sandbox RPG where you customize your character, choose your path, and immerse yourself in the fantasy world as a knight, wizard, miner, lumberjack, farmer, and more. After all, this is YOUR adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.9% ★, Sandbox 11.7%, Open World 10.8%, RPG 9.7%, Crafting 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world RPG that incorporates deep crafting and survival elements in a classic fantasy setting.
- #25 Novus Inceptio
82% matchMixed52% of 1,302 reviews2015
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Warning: This is an Early Access game! Welcome to an enigmatic world, where a new gaming experience in exploring, building and surviving is waiting just for you. Experience a sandbox world with survival elements, and join us in creating a full version of the game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.6% ★, Sandbox 11.5%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that features unique aging and genetic systems alongside traditional crafting.
- #26 Savage Lands
79% matchMixed55% of 6,679 reviews2021
Dev: Last Bastion Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Your fight for survival begins on the frozen shores of Tarvhas, where bitter cold and vicious creatures conspire to defeat the unprepared. Uncover the land’s dark history as you and fellow explorers traverse an unforgiving and hostile world to tame the Savage Lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.8% ★, Open World 10.9%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 9.7%, Sandbox 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A harsh survival game that emphasizes crafting and building to withstand a brutal fantasy environment.
- #27 Wurm Online
78% matchMixed63% of 2,533 reviews2020
Dev: Code Club AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 39.2 hrs≥1hr: 47%
A sandbox MMORPG that has pushed the boundaries on what it means to be open world and stood the test of time. Dig, mine, shape the world around you and make your lasting mark!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.8% ★, Sandbox 17.6%, MMORPG 11.2% ★, Building 8.7%, RPG 7.4%
- #28 BitCraft Online
75% matchMostly Positive74% of 3,504 reviews2025
Dev: Clockwork Laboratories, Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 97.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Join thousands of players in a true single-world MMORPG. Carve out a cozy nook, master a player-driven economy, or band together to transform the ancient wilderness into thriving cities. From humble beginnings to legend, your choices matter - because in BitCraft, your actions shape our world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.9% ★, MMORPG 15% ★, Sandbox 13.4%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 9%
- #29 GRAV
79% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.2% ★, Open World 11.5%, Sandbox 10.5%, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Features a sci-fi survival setting with a strong focus on base-building and exploration.
- #30 Dune: Awakening
73% matchMostly Positive70% of 76,118 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 47.7 hrsMean: 97.4 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 9.6%, Building 8.8%
- #31 DreamWorld: Sandbox MMO
75% matchMixed69% of 54 reviews2026
Dev: DreamWorld Realities, Inc.
Windows
Build incredible structures with powerful tools. Explore the world with all players on one server. Battle bosses, farm, craft, and socialize with friends. How will you shape DreamWorld?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.7% ★, MMORPG 10.6% ★, Sandbox 9.7%, Open World 9.4%, Crafting 8.7%
- #32 Wild Terra Online
77% matchMixed60% of 1,839 reviews2017
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Wild Terra Online is a sandbox RPG, in a completely player-controlled medieval world. You will have to survive in a forest full of predators, build a shelter and improve your crafts skills, tame animals and fight for treasures. You can become anyone and do whatever you want!
Why similar: Sandbox 17.2%, Open World 14.2%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 10.1%, MMORPG 9.2% ★
- #33 Blockscape
78% matchMixed46% of 898 reviews2014
Dev: ioneo
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 49%
The ultimate block building game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.8% ★, Sandbox 14%, Open World 8.4%, Crafting 8.2%, Building 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a highly detailed voxel building experience with a focus on structural integrity and creative freedom.
- #34 Planet Explorers
77% matchMixed62% of 6,817 reviews2016
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39% ★, Sandbox 14.8%, Open World 12.1%, Crafting 8.7%, Survival 6.9%
- #35 Renown
74% matchMixed59% of 1,558 reviews2025
Dev: RDBK Studios
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Renown is an intense medieval multiplayer survival experience set in a vast, ever-evolving world. Whether alone or rallying allies, gather resources, build powerful strongholds, and engage in brutal battles for dominance.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.9% ★, Crafting 10.6%, Sandbox 9.9%, Open World 9.8%, Building 8.8%
- #36 Shamania
72% matchMostly Positive77% of 145 reviews2025
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.2% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Open World 12.1%, Sandbox 10%, Survival 8.8%
- #37 Crestfallen: Medieval Survival
73% matchMixed59% of 460 reviews2024
Dev: Bloodbath Studios
Windows
👑 Hail to the King! In Crestfallen: Medieval Survival, players clash for dominance over the realm through strategic castle 🏰 building and fierce combat. Craft epic armor, forge deadly medieval weapons⚔️, and build a kingdom worthy of legend 📜. Create a Guild 🐉, trade goods, and prevail! 🌟
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.1% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Open World 10%, Sandbox 9.7%, Building 9.2%
- #38 Pax Dei
71% matchMixed57% of 10,968 reviews2025
Dev: Mainframe Industries
Windows
Median: 16.5 hrsMean: 70.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Welcome to a vast, social sandbox MMO inspired by the legends of the medieval era. Here, myths are real, ghosts exist, and magic is unquestioned. Join thousands of players as you explore the land, build your home, forge your reputation, and craft your own stories. What world will you make?
Why similar: MMORPG 16.2% ★, Sandbox 16.1%, Crafting 15.3%, Open World 14.4%, Base Building 10%
- #39 Project: Gorgon
70% matchVery Positive83% of 4,849 reviews2026
Dev: Elder Game, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 84.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Project: Gorgon is a fantasy MMORPG that allows you to forge your own path through exploration and discovery.
Why similar: MMORPG 27.8% ★, RPG 20.5%, Massively Multiplayer 15.4%, Open World 11.3%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #40 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
70% matchVery Positive82% of 9,989 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.8% ★, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 9.5%, Sandbox 9.1%, Survival 8.9%
- #41 Wild Omission
70% matchVery Positive89% of 63 reviews2023
Dev: Telephone Studios
Windows
Wild Omission is an open world sandbox survival game with severe weather set in an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.9% ★, Crafting 11.9%, Sandbox 10.8%, Open World 10.7%, Building 9.6%
- #42 FortressCraft Evolved!
72% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,057 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.5% ★, Sandbox 12.2%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 9.6%, Survival 7%
- #43 Re.poly
71% matchVery Positive91% of 137 reviews2019
Dev: Hinkfoot Studios
Windows
Re.Poly is a relaxed yet deep indie survival game in a low-poly style that blends exploration, combat, building, and adventure. Whether alone or with friends, create your own world, write your own story, and decide how you want to play.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Sandbox 12.7%, Crafting 12.1%, Open World 11.1%, Survival 9.4%
- #44 In Next Life
69% matchMixed68% of 131 reviews2026
Dev: Dual DecadePub: Wereviz AB
Windows · Mac
An online multiplayer game of crafting, survival, civilization building, and player collaboration. Start in the stone age and live, build, and invent your way to higher civilization. Live and die as well as you can, to gain the experience you need to achieve even more in your next life!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Crafting 11%, Sandbox 10%, MMORPG 9.1% ★, Open World 8.6%
- #45 Alchemist's Awakening
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 497 reviews2019
Dev: OsarisGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Enter a world full of magic, mystery, beautiful landscapes and dangerous creatures. Build your own destiny, by yourself or with some friends, gather materials, use elements as attacks, recombine them into building blocks... and use your Alchemist's power to give life to any shape you built.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.1% ★, Sandbox 15.2%, Crafting 14.7%, Open World 12.5%, Survival 9.2%
- #46 ENDALOR
68% matchMostly Positive71% of 239 reviews2026
Dev: Diorite Games
Windows
An immersive medieval dark fantasy survival game with RPG elements for 1-4 players. Set in a hand crafted open world. Explore, survive, build, craft, fight and conquer your way through the dark, brutal and mysterious lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.3% ★, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 8.7%, Survival 8.3%, Building 8.2%
- #47 Omega Crafter
67% matchMostly Positive80% of 566 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Open World 12.1%, Survival 9.3%, Building 8%
- #48 Mortal Online 2
69% matchMixed60% of 13,609 reviews2022
Dev: Star Vault AB
Windows
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 145.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Step into Nave, a vast fantasy sandbox world with a player-driven economy, persistent housing, and deep crafting systems. Engage in first-person, full-loot PvP combat with other players and perilous foes. Build, explore, and conquer in an unforgiving world. The land is yours—who will you become?
Why similar: MMORPG 18.5% ★, Sandbox 16.9%, Open World 15.2%, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 8.8%
- #49 Longvinter
66% matchMixed67% of 7,565 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 42.7 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.5% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Open World 11.6%, Survival 10.6%, Sandbox 10.6%
- #50 Dragon And Home
68% matchMixed60% of 1,378 reviews2021
Dev: HIG
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Dragon and Home is a sandbox MMORPG where players can choose freely how they desire to play. Whether you want to play as a courageous adventurer, or you want to experience the tranquil rural lifestyles, growing plants, and feeding animals with your friends in the Homeland, you can find it all.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.4% ★, MMORPG 12.1% ★, Sandbox 11.7%, Open World 11.1%, Survival 7.5%
- #51 Terraria
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,524,255 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 150.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.7% ★, Sandbox 14.8%, Crafting 9.4%, Survival 8.4%, Building 8%
- #52 Outlaws of the Old West
67% matchMixed59% of 6,290 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.7% ★, Open World 14.5%, Survival 12.2%, Multiplayer 5.8%, Crafting 5.3%
- #53 Nightingale
64% matchMixed67% of 17,932 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.4% ★, Open World 11%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 9.5%, Survival 9.2%
- #54 Tinkerlands
63% matchVery Positive86% of 3,833 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35% ★, Sandbox 12.3%, Open World 10.4%, Crafting 9.4%, Survival 8.6%
